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    Gorge Road

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    February 11, 2014
    February 11, 2014. I took a quick drive up Gorge Road today to get a picture during my lunch break - the sky was clear and blue, as you can see, and I wanted to see what the world looked like outside the city.from Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jZyq9p
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    St Patrick’s

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    February 10, 2014
    February 10, 2014. I've lived a block away from St Patrick's for the last ten years but it is only this year I've started taking spin class there. I had always thought it was a daycare, but discovered it's a fitness centre once I started searching for ...
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    Misty Moon

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    February 9, 2014
    February 9, 2014. We bought this at the craft fair when we moved into out new house and put it in our hallway window, where it catches the southern light. The plastic is to keep the cold out.from Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jVNnjT
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    Dyson Spheres

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    February 9, 2014
    February 8, 2014. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me most of the day, but I did get this shot from home just before midnight. That's one of those Dyson bladeless fans; it was overpriced but is fun to have.from Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jV2mb2
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    Winter Forest

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    February 7, 2014
    February 7, 2014. This is a pretty typical scene in Canada in winter, and is in fact what I saw as I parked in the parking lot when I arrived at the office this morning. Love that blue sky (even if it meant slightly frosty weather). Don't love that win...
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    Wire Rope

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    February 6, 2014
    February 6, 2014. So this was intended to be a photo of the building in the background, but the camera is beautifully focused on the wire rope in the foreground. It was taken from the airport lounge; my flight Wednesday night was canceled so I had an u...
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    Oak Leaves

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    February 6, 2014
    January 5, 2015. I was rushing to sign some papers during lunch break in an all day session at NRC's office in Ottawa but took a momewnt to admire and photograph these oak leaves just outside building M-54.from Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jPpwdi
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    Perceptions of Reality

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    February 4, 2014
    February 4, 2013. This sculpture is located on the main floor of the CISTI building (M-55) in Ottawa and is called Perceptions of Reality, and is by David Makow. I saw a nearly identical sculpture a few hours later in the lobby of M-50, so I wonder whe...
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    Snorkel

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    February 3, 2014
    February 3, 2014. A meeting in the morning, on the road this afternoon, back to Ottawa, where I discovered this fascinating device parked near a gate in the airport. I thought it looked very well balanced and need.from Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jJEuaw
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    Dancers

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    February 2, 2014
    February 2, 2014. Everything was different at this afternoon's basketball games, including the uniforms worn by the cheerleaders - instead of the usual orange they wore referee stripes in honour of today's Super Bowl. To no avail. A sloppy game, a loss...
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    Dead Hard Drives

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    February 1, 2014
    February 1, 2014. I went to work with my photos this week and found two of the three photo backup drives had failed. So into the pile of dead hard drives they went (and I'm loading up some new backup files). Note the logos. I am completely finished buy...
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    Flight to the Basket

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    January 31, 2014
    January 31, 2014. Trevan Latham flies through the air on the way to scoring a basked for the Moncton Miraxcles agsinst the Ottawa Skyhawks. Fun fun game tonight after a few very busy days finishing the first draft of our implementation plan (that's wha...
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    Ron Roy

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    January 30, 2014
    January 30, 2014. This is where I get gas. It's an Esso station a couple blocks from home. I'm a regular customer, but they might not know that, because I don't get gas very often. Nice bright day today, a chilly -11C but still the sunshine is a pleasa...
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    Coffee Plant

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    January 28, 2014
    January 28, 2014. The other day I showed you Destructor (aka Lexi the Cat) and told the story of the coffee plant she knocked over. Here is our poor tirtured coffee plant. It's at least five years old, probably more, and has suffered a lot over the yea...
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    Brown Ice

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    January 28, 2014
    January 27, 2014. I drove Andrea to the dentist, which took me over the bridge into Riverview. What you are seeing in this photo is a view of downtown Moncton from Riverview, and the brown ice in the foreground is actually the frozen and churning Petit...
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    MarArthur’s

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    January 26, 2014
    January 26, 2015. So Lexi - introduced yesterday - is also known as "Destructor" around our house. Nine times out of ten, if we hear a crash in the other room, it was Lexi. Just so today, when she knocked Andrea's coffee plant off the top of the microw...
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    CISTI

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    January 24, 2014
    January 24, 2014. I'm still in Ottawa, attending Customer Relations Management training all day in the J.E. Brown building, or as it's known to all of us, M-55. It's the former CISTI building, and also houses the now empty offices of the NRC Research P...
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    Deep Learning

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    January 23, 2014
    January 23, 2014. I spent the better part of the day today watching Hugo Larochelle's presentation on deep learning. This is basically the use of neural networks to support unsupervised machine learning. The morning covered deep learning basics, and th...
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    Groceries

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    January 21, 2014
    January 20, 2014. I'm in Ottawa through the week so bought some groceries Monday evening to sustain me the rest of the week. This is that grocery order - fish, vegetables, and the rest. This represents $89 worth of groceries at the downtown Loblaws, an...
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    Beechcraft

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    January 17, 2014
    January 17, 2014. The view from my seat inside a Beechcraft flight from Halifax (hence the fog) to Moncton on my way home from Ottawa. Good meetings today, home for a couple opf days, and then back to Ottawa!from Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jhVGi2
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    Montreal

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    January 16, 2014
    January 16, 2014. This isn't Montreal, it's Gatineau, as seen from the 11th floor of the hotel. But I spent the whole day driving to Montreal, having a meeting, and driving back again. 30 minutes on the stationary bike, and that's my day.from Flickr ht...
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    Ottawa

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    January 15, 2014
    January 15, 2014. The obligatory photo of the Parliament Buildings from my first day in Ottawa for 2014. Today I'm here for meetings. I'll be in Ottawa quite a bit over the next few weeks.from Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jeXQiq
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    2013 10 13 – Phaselis, Turkey

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    October 13, 2013
    2013 10 13 - Phaselis, Turkey, a set on Flickr.Phaselis is claimed to have been founded in 690 BC by Dorian colonists from Rhodos under the hero Lacius. Three natural harbours made it into one of the most important harbour cities along the Mediterranean.
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